St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-10
WELCOME.

st. PauPS gates will be thrown wide
open to-day to welcome the president of
the United States, who makes his first
visit to the metropolis of the golden
Northwest. President CLEVELAND will
be accompanied by his young wife, who
is as good as she is fair, and to both of
them ST. Paul will extend as cordial a
greeting as ever hospitable host ex-
tended to welcome guests.
There will be no pretense in the dem
onstrations we will make in your honor,
Mr.. and Mrs. CLEVELAND.
We are downright glad to see you
and intend to make you feel at home
during your short sojourn in our midst.
We are plain, matter of fact, every
day sort of people out here in the North
west and you may be unused to our
primitive ways. But, for all that, we
have hearts as big as the Rocky noun
tains and as warm as the tropics; and
we intend that you shall know in what
ardent esteem we hold the man, the
governing principle of whose official
life is that public office is public trust,
and of his noble little wife, whose name
is household word in all our land, be-
cause it is the synonym of all that is eX-
cellent in female character.
We are not going to put ON any cod
fish style in the reception we tender
you, Mr.. President. 1t will be a spon-
taneous outpouring of our people to pay
tribute to the nations chief magistrate.
We are busy people up here, too busy
for much conventionality. We will quit
work this afternoon about the time you
arrive and will go right down in our
working clothes to salute you, so if you
don't see as many swallow tailed coats
on your arrival here as you did in Chi
cago, don't attribute it to any lack of re-
spect on our part for either yourself OF
the high Office which you hold. What
we lack in style we make up in the sim
certify of our patriotic enthusiasm.
If our hospitality isn't loud it is gen
uine-all wool and yard wide.
Now, with these few predatory re-
marks of welcome, Mr.. President, we
desire to call your attention to what you
are going to see while you are with us.
You will stand to-day for the first time
at the head of navigation of the Missis-
sippi river, and you will find here a
young metropolis rising up in the
great pathway of commerce and travel
that the hand of nature has drawn be-
tween the East and the West.
You will find here queenly young
city which is the mart of exchange for
the commodities of one of the most fer
tile sections of the great country over
which you preside, and which is the
hating place for the mighty caravans
of trade that now float upon the waters
or fly across the continent on tracks of
iron.
You will find st. Paul to be the capital
city of young state which, in extent
of territory, the fertility of its soil, and
in the richness and boundless variety of
its resources, an empire of material
wealth within itself.
just above US, and within almost a
bow-shot, you will find another city of
equal splendor and promise. This is
st. Paul's twin sister.
And you will be astonished to see
these twin marvels of progress and
rapid development.
That is, you will be astonished until
you have had time to observe that these
twin cities have the busiest population
on earth. And when you once come to
know the thrift of our people, their
energy, their enterprise, and their
phenomenal goaheadiveness, you will
not be astonished that this great North
west has come to be known as the won
derland Of progress.
Seeing is believing, Mr.. President,
and as you have honored US by coming
to see with your own eyes and to con-
firm the truth of the reports you have
heard of our marvellous development,
we will say no more.
And as for you, Mrs. Cleveland, you
will be back to-day amid the scenes Of
your girlhood-back to the old home.
God bless the first lady of our land.
Long live the president of the United
States.
On behalf of the, people of st. Paul,
and of Minnesota, and of the entire
Northwest, the GLOBE extends ~.
Shake.